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House Concert with Andrew Combs and Erin Rae @SIGNoftheWAGON
Two great Sign of the Wagon past performers on on April Monday Night. Please join us in welcoming Andrew Combs back to town supporting his new LP, "Canyons of my Mind." Also on the bill for the evening is Nashville singer songstress, Erin Rae - Returning for a night of tunes for our ears!
Tickets: $15 Advance / $20 at the door
Doors at 7:00 PM / Show at 8:00 PM
Get your tickets in advance, please!
21+ please or appropriate guardian.
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Ever heard of a happy song?
That question is posed to Andrew Combs in Rainy Day Song, the lead track on his acclaimed 2014 album, All These Dreams, during a barstool chat with a sarcastic friend. The singer offended but gracious smiles and allows the moment to pass, eschewing confrontation for the sake of a gem he polishes as an afterthought for the listener: Tabs on me if you think Im lying / Laughing aint a pleasure till you know about crying. The moment, full of the understated charm and pulsing honesty that defines his music, is as good a metaphor as any for the songcraft of Andrew Combs.
A Dallas native now living near the same Nashville airport immortalized in the opening sequence of Robert Altmans country music odyssey, Andrew Combs is a singer, songwriter, guitarist and heir to that 1975 films idea of the Nashville troubadour as a kind of musical monk. Here in the twenty-first century whorl of digital narcissism, where identity can feel like a 24/7 social media soft-shoe performance, Combs makes music that does battle with the unsubtle. Like the pioneering color photographer William Eggleston, he sees the everyday and the commonplace as the surest paths to transcendence, and he understands intuitively that what is most obvious is often studded with the sacred. As a songwriter, Combs relies on meditative restraint rather than showy insistence to paint his canvases, a technique commensurate with his idea of nature as an overflowing spiritual wellspring. NPR music critic Ann Powers noted as much in a 2014 review: His song-pictures are gorgeous, but he recognizes their impermanence as he sings. This deeply felt sense of ecology, of the transient beauty within natures chaotic churn, lies at the heart of Combss approach to his art.
After touring behind All These Dreams, a record that earned him international accolades and comparisons to everyone from Leonard Cohen to Mickey Newbury to Harry Nilsson, Combs has returned with a new album that puts down stakes in fresh sonic terrain. Canyons of My Mind, out in March on New West, is as its title suggests a landscape where the personal and the pastoral converge. Drawing inspiration from the biographies of literary figures like Charles Wright and Jim Harrison, Combs has created an album that explores the notion of sustainability in its many facets artistic, economic, spiritual, environmental.
When I set out to record All These Dreams, I had a distinct vision of what I wanted the record to sound like. It was a cocktail of the Roy Orbison, Glen Campbell, Nilsson vibes that you can hear right there on the surface, Combs says. Canyons of My Mind is much more personal. Its a testament to my acceptance of who I am as a man, and who I am becoming. The records sonic adventurousness bears witness to that evolution, as well as to some big changes in his personal life. Between All These Dreams and Canyons, Combs married his longtime girlfriend Kristin, with whom he honeymooned for six weeks in the Minnesota wilderness. She walks through her life exuding such open-mindedness and kindness, Combs says. I cant help but watch in awe. She lets me be whoever I want to be, and thats new to me. And quite refreshing, and freeing.
The quiet struggles and satisfactions of carving out an identity in a world gone wrong are palpable throughout the album. Whether questing through the labyrinth of his own spiritual yearning, (Heart of Wonder), recreating a rail riders full-body sensation of freedom beneath an azure Montana sky (Rose Colored Blues), imagining a near-future dystopia where the very idea of green spaces has been annihilated (Dirty Rain), or channeling the desire of a peeping Tom who has fallen in love with his sylvan quarry (Hazel), Combs refines the vulnerable vagabond persona he mastered on All These Dreams while pushing it beyond those boundaries, into a more pastoral realm aligned with artists like Nick Drake and Tim Buckley. The idea of the artists creative life as an ecosystem one just as in need of cultivation and care as our own imperiled world informs much of Canyons. For Combs, the quest to sustain his own capacity to create on a daily basis is what drives him. I want to create for the rest of my life writing, singing, painting, he says. I also want my life to include a family, a house, and kids. Seeking out other artists whove been able to keep the lights on without compromising their art that keeps me inspired.
https://twitter.com/andrew_combs
https://www.facebook.com/andrewcombsmusic/
https://andrewcombs.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/andrew_combs/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc6z40GKYao
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Nashville-based singer-songwriter Erin Rae has released the title track of her debut album, Soon Enough. The record will be released on Sept. 4, and has been in the works since the release of her Crazy Talk EP in 2012.
Rae has been a familiar face in the Nashville alt-country scene in recent years, providing background vocals for many local artists, including Andrew Combs, William Tyler and Caroline Spence. The inspiring first single showcases Raes smooth, haunting tone and her impressive ability to express immense emotion with just a few hums and strums of the guitar. Soon Enough cements Raes position as a solo artist ready to step out of the background and into the spotlight for good. http://nocountryfornewnashville.com/2015/07/03/stream-soon-enough-from-erin-rae-and-the-meanwhiles-debut-lp/
http://www.erinraemusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ErinRaeMeanwhiles/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLwftjW_Efk
https://www.instagram.com/erinraemeanwhiles/
https://twitter.com/Erinrae_music
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